The Foochow Herald, in commenting on the above proclamation points out:—1. Thatit falsely charges the people with having burnt the house, whereas—as is now well-known to nearly everybody—the property was deliberately and premeditatedly destroyed by a hired mob. 2:—The missionaries are falsely charged with havin, "surreptitiously encroached" on the groun in_question. The civil and military officers who did not exert themselves to repress the rioters" are so numerous that should only two of their number be deprived of their buttons there will bea
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